Music and Ada

I teach piano lessons all Tuesday afternoon... so it puts me in the music mindframe... as well as Ada.  Not to mention that her favorite and almost exclusive tv watching is Little Einsteins which is based around music.  But here are a few of the things that this 2 1/2 year old does.  She can keep a rythm.  She can show you the A and the C keys on the piano.  She'll clap out timings (not always correctly, but it's cute to watch... she picks up my flash cards, finds the ones for timing and starts clapping.) She sings and will follow along in a book as long as it has music.  She tells me which songs go "quickly".  She plays the piano, pauses to stand up, turns the page, sits down and keeps playing.  She's started taking sticks and conducting.  She makes me sing loud and soft by making her hands higher and lower.  But my favorite is... we were eating at a Chinese restaurant and she found some chopsticks.  She put one up to her chin like and violin and the other she used as a bow and started bowing back and forth saying, "Look mom!  I'm playing the violin!"  Cute!  (I think she got this from playing the violin with my mom the other day.  My mom was brave and even let Ada hold the bow pretty much by herself til she got a little wild with the bowing... )  I think I need to start thinking about what kind of music lessons she might like and whether or not I'm brave enough to teach her piano or beginning cello/violin.  I think she's really young for all that, but she sure enjoys it enough to start considering it.